Daß sich jene, die während der Operation Cast Lead munter als Fakt weitergaben, was die Hamas–Propaganda ihnen einflüsterte, mit dem Ende der Kampfhandlungen damit beschäftigen würden, was an ihren Nachrichten stimmte und was nicht, war nicht wirklich zu erwarten. Zu peinlich wäre es den Storchs und den Kühntopps, müßten sie veröffentlicht zugeben, als wessen Sprachrohr sie bereitwillig sich instrumentalisieren ließen.
Und so bleiben sie, da Israel für die Inszenierungen Pallywoods ganz sicher nicht verantwortlich zu machen ist, denn auch da stumm, wo mittlerweile selbst die Vereinten Nationen sich um die Wahrung ihres Rufs mühen und sie, die „Journalisten“, echte Aufklärungsarbeit vor Ort leisten könnten. Diese Arbeit überlassen sie den IDF und schweigen wohl nicht ganz zufällig auch darüber.
An ihrer Blamage ändert dies freilich nur, daß jene dadurch noch größer wird:
„While the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, whose death toll figures have been widely cited, reports that 895 Gaza civilians were killed in the fighting, amounting to more than two-thirds of all fatalities, the IDF figures shown to the [Jerusalem] Post on Sunday put the civilian death toll at no higher than a third of the total.
The international community had been given a vastly distorted impression of the death toll because of ‚false reporting‘ by Hamas, said Col. Moshe Levi, the head of the IDF’s Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration (CLA), which compiled the IDF figures.
As an example of such distortion, he cited the incident near a UN school in Jabalya on January 6, in which initial Palestinian reports falsely claimed IDF shells had hit the school and killed 40 or more people, many of them civilians.
In fact, he said, 12 Palestinians were killed in the incident – nine Hamas operatives and three noncombatants. Furthermore, as had since been acknowledged by the UN, the IDF was returning fire after coming under attack, and its shells did not hit the school compound.
‚From the beginning, Hamas claimed that 42 people were killed, but we could see from our surveillance that only a few stretchers were brought in to evacuate people,‘ said Levi, adding that the CLA contacted the PA Health Ministry and asked for the names of the dead. ‚We were told that Hamas was hiding the number of dead.'“